COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
GERMANY WINS ON LAND,
WATER AND IN
THE AIR
seen college graduates working on sec
tion crews at a dollar a day, and any
pupil is likely to go up against tie
PU B LISH E D E V E B Y F B ID A Y
same kind o f a proposition i f not pre
pared against it. Only a small propor
One year..............................
$1.50
tion o f college men are in the business
Six m onths.......................................... 80
world today aud most o f these who are Kovno Fortress Falls Into Hands of
Both Leader and Sentinel one
Army of the Kaiser at Last.
are no further ahead than other meu
who
have
not
had
such
educational
ad
Advertising rates on application
London, Aug. 18.— Kovuo, one o f the
By DONALD CHAMBERLIN
vantages.
crucial points in the Russian defensive
Every Tuesday night at 8:30 Ten Booster Merchants give away $10.00,
BEDE & TYRRELL. Publishers and
Young men ami young women should in the north, was captured by the
Billy Perkins hud the usual Auierl-
Proprietors
good for anything in their stores. Save your tickets during the week
begin preparing for their life work Germans last night, and the road to
V’ ilna, Warsaw and Petrograd railway
and be there Tuesday nights. Besides seeing the best show in town you
while they are young. Things are
is now open to the troops of Emperor
hear good music and have ten chances o f winning $1.00.
ELBERT BEDE, Managing Editor
easier learned then. Then, too, at that William.
u clerk lu
W. H. TYRRELL, Local Editor
age, it is not a serious matter if a
The capture o f the fortress was
young man or woman finds that he or another triumph for the German lti-inch
guns, which throughout the present war
S A T U R D A Y
S R B C /A L
Entered as second-class matter January j she has started to learn a trade to have been brought against no fo rtifica
25, 1913, at the postoffice at Cottage which he or she is not adapted and tions they were unable to reduce. With
Grove, Oregon, under the Act of wants to make a change. A fte r one the fortress o f Kovno, the Germans
March 3, 1879.
reaches 25 or 30 it is a serious thing to have taken over 400 guns, and, accord ! an apology for occupation.
We always have a special for our large Saturday nigut audiences,
waste a year or so trying to learn some ing to their account, an enormous quan
und this time we have a 3-part Police Drama you are sure to like.
tity o f war materials.
W H A T ARE Y O U DOING? W H A T trade at which he or she can not suc
This, however, is not the most im
ARE Y O U GOING TO DO?
ceed.
portant part o f the matter to the Rus
It may take some ambition and per sians. Besides opening the way to Vil- the embassy, but be was seldom
HE SCHOOLS o f the country severance to do these things and it may na, which is an open town, and from
which most of the inhabitants have ever called upon to do uny work.
4
J soon w ill be in session again. require the giving up o f pleasures ohee
IN N E P T U N E S D A U G H T E R
departed and from which everything
This leads' us to ask o f school , in awhile, but it s not such an irksome that might be of use to the invaders
pupils: “ What are you doing and what thing to do. An hour or so a day and has been removed, the fall of the fort
MONDAY
WEDNESDAY
are you going to do?”
a few hours on Saturday is sufficient, ress takes away the last protection, with
IN HER MOTHER S FOOTSTEPS
THE DOUBLE TRAP
The answer to the first question | and the young man and young woman the exception of the Russian field army,
to the main line railway to the capital, For Instance, there were
A beautiful Selig drama in 2 parts
7th Episode o f Exploits o f Elaine
probably w ill be:
with a desire to be someone aud to and also places the Germans in u posi
Pathe News and a Cartoon Comedy
SLIM. TH E BRAVE, A N D SOPHIE, '
“ Preparing and educating jurselves amount to something w ill find his or tion to threaten the flanks of the Rus
THE FAIR
for our life w ork.’ ’
| her fight for a position in the world sian armies retiring to the Brest- lie
Very laudable endeavor, certainly, ' greatly advanced by preparation now, Litovsk line and those operating in
One o f those “ Slippery S lim ” come
T
U
E
S
D
A
Y
southern Courland.
but are pupils really doing what their during the time they are allowing to
dies thut ’s a scream.
Grand Duke Nicholas apparently ex
• Boosters’ Night and you have ten
answer indicates that they are and go to waste.
pected the fall o f Kovno, for his head. He was permitted to see cer
chances o f winning $1.00. Bring
armies are hastening their retirement tain young ladles la tlielr homes
when they leave school will they be
Don’t say that this is too much o f a
THURSDAY
your tickets and come. Special pro
eastward.
They
still
hold
their
own
not
alone.
Some
member
o
f
the
able to earn a living?
task. You w ill not have to do one-half from Kovno to the south o f Ossowetz, lly other than the lady on whot
Helen Gardner in
gram.
Richard Crane, a Chicago manufac
nor one-third as much as muny o f the but south o f that they are being pressed called vvns always present.
RODS o r W RATH
THE STILL, SM A L L VOICE
turer, a man experienced in receiving
great men of the country have done be from the northwest by Generals Von
A d-part ship story, featuring M. O.
One young lady In whose horn
Hearts of the Jungles
from the schools as workers in his
Schulz and Von Gallwitz, and from the was accorded an entrance was a daugh
fore you.
Rena, Eleanor W oodruff and Henry
An
animal
story showing the largest
west
by
Archduke
Leopold,
who
has
shops, pupils who have presumably pre
ter o f Dou Sebastiano Herrera, a Span-
Walthall.
Look at Lincoln, who studied his crossed the Bug river and is approach
zoo in the world— the Selig.
pared themselves for their life work,
problems by the light o f a burning em- ing the Brest-Litovsk and Bialystok
a few years ago said that he found them
\ ber or candle after the hard work of railway. It is the same in the south,
Dona
entirely unprepared for the work. It
where General Von Mackensen, after Isahella.
the day was done. I t w ill never be as many rebuffs, finally has succeeded in
was mostly his suggestion that resulted
hard fo r pupils o f today as it was for driving the Muscovites into their outer
in the establishment o f industrial trade
him, and yet he was better educated in positions o f the fortress o f Brest- the Herrera family. As for Billy Per-
schools in Chicago.
many ways than the great majority of 1,itovsk.
What the schools are doing in pre
For the first time since he begun his
us are likely ever to be. Few o f us
retirement from western Galicia in be thought o f as a husband fo r her.
paring young men and young women o f
will ever leave behind when we depart May, Grand Duke Nicholas, in the opin
the country for their future work should
Nevertheless the Herreras had trav
this life a literary gem equal to the ion o f m ilitary observers, finds part of
eled abroad a good deal and had
not be underestimated. It is a great
his army in serious danger o f envelop
Gettysburg speech.
work that they are doing, but boys and
ment. The military writers express thrown off some o f the most ultra o f
The late Gov. Johnson o f Minnesota
Spanish conventional
forms.
girls w ill find that the education which
curiosity as to how he will extricate it. tlielr
was another such as Lincoln. He was
The Russian troops are in orderly re Their daughter met men at balls, and
they get from text books alone, im
left to support a mother when he was treat, us is evidenced by the fact that occasionally one was Invited to her
portant as it is, is not sufficient, nor
six years o f age and yet at death he outside o f the guns taken with the home—of course only by ber father or
efficien t— that it by no means com
had a greater command o f the English fortress o f Kovno or captured in the mother. Billy I ’erkins met her at a
pletely prepares them for their work.
forts o f Novogeorgievsk, two more of function given by his chief, the am
language than it is likely that the great which have fallen, the eGrmans make
They will find, i f they let their educa
bassador, and fell desperately In love
majority of us w ill ever have. I f he no claim to the capture of artillery. It
with her.
tion stop there, that jobs will not come
V
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had lived he would have, undoubtedly, would appear also that few prisoners
Dona Inez evinced a desire to learn
to them as readily as to their less edu
I
Misses’ shoes, all sizes, $1.35,
M en’s overalls, all sizes, at X
been nominated for president on the have been taken, which doubtless English, and when Billy offered to
cated brother who has prepared himself
V
*1.50 il,,d ............................. $195
75c and......................................85c ♦♦♦
means that a considerable part of the
Democratic ticket three years ago.
Austro-Germans in their recent advance teach her her mother was much pleased
in a different way— the way o f experi
J
M
en’s
work
pants,
at
a
bar-
'
with the offer. The good lady had a
Then there’s ex-Congressman Tawney have not met with serious fighting.
ence.
gain .................................... $1.00
One big lot o f com forts..........95c
high
admiration
for
the
English
nobil
o f Minnesota— a blacksmith’s appren
With Kovno in German hands, and
Too many have the mistaken idea
tice at 14 and chairman of the appro another German army across the Bug. ity aud had formed a design o f taking
that text book education is all the ad
south o f Brest-Litovsk, a speedy exit, her daughter to England, hoping that
priations committee o f congress at mid
vance preparation that need be made
according to military observers, is the her rare beauty would catch an Eng
dle age.
only safe one for the Russians if they lish nobleman. How ever this may be.
for a life work.
Take inspiration from these.
are to escape before the second set of Billy was permitted to come to the
*
*
*
While Roosevelt was president, he pincers prepared for them are closed. house two evenings In the week to give
OUNG men and young women do
W’ hile fighting to crush the Russian Dona Inez lessons In the English lan
^ L
not prepare far enough ahead, said: “ M y ideal o f a boy is one who army, the Germans are finding time for
guage. O f course her mother or some
do not plan enough on the time will grow up and be able to support minor activities in other fields. Last member o f the fam ily who could I * re
'— ^
night
they
carried
out
their
seventeenth
himself
and
a
w
ife
and
children.
Bring
when their school work will be com
air raid on England, visiting eastern lied upon was present to watch that
pleted and they are thrown abruptly on them up to work,” he said, “ so that counties, where they dropped bombs, no lovemaklng pnssed bqtween the two
Moreover, whoever
the world. They w ill find this happen they shall recognize an obstacle as which, according to the official com young persons.
almost before they know it, and they something to be overcome, not to be munication, killed ten and injured thir was on watch understood enough Eng
ty. As in the last raid, the admiralty lish to know If Billy were trying to
shirked.”
w ill be looking for a job.
* # •
reports that it believes that one of the work that language for the purpose o f
A ll cannot be bookkeepers, nor pro
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v * v W A * w a " " a " 9 a ? " a ? W a T y V w W a W
V a " W a t T a * T a ? y y ?
Zeppelins, o f which there was sup making love, though, since Dona Inez
E
C
AN
N
O
T
increase
the
strength
fessional people, nor politicians, all can
posed to be four, was damaged.
did not understand a word o f English,
A dispatch from Holland today re this was hardly necessary.
not follow occupations where a text J I J o f our muscles by sitting in a
gymnasium and letting others ported that another quartet of dirig
book education is presumed to be su ffi
Nothing is so delightful to tw o young
ibles was on the way to England, but persons o f opposite sex as to outwit
cient. Most o f these fields o f endeavor exercise for us. Neither can we learn
nothing further has been heard of them.
are overcrowded already.
Someone a trade by watching others work at it.
The German submarines also have those who nre placed on guard over
We
must
get
the
practical
experience.
must work at other lines. Are pupils
been busy, and during the day the sink them. Billy’s method o f teaching Eng
Young men and young women, you ing o f three British and three neutral lish was to have his pupil read some
prepared fo r this time o f their life?
will
soon be running this great country steamers and a trawler has been re thing printed In that language or con
Are they preparing themselves for such
vert something printed from Spanish
o f ours. Prepare yourselves for the ported.
a time?
As an offset to the German suc Into the English tongue. This required
task.
The uneducated man with a trade is
cesses in the east, the French official the use o f a Spanish nnd English dic
The man who tries to do something communication reports further gains tionary.
doing better than the educated man
One evening when the tw o w ere at
without a trade. Educators the world and fails is better prepared than he for the French troops in the Vosges,
while General Sir Ian Hamilton, com work using the dictionary every few
over are beginning to recognize this who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
mander o f the allied focres on the Gal minutes, Billy, turning the leuves, stop
Keep before you this inspirng motto:
fact and are declaring text book edu
lipoli peninsula, announces an advance
ped nnd put his finger on the word
cation merely elementary to the great “ Sad will be the day for me when I by the new force o f allied troops, which
“ your.’’ Then he turned to the words
become
contented
with
the
thoughts
1
Innded
at
Suvla
bay,
nnd
the
repulse
work o f life.
“ eyes" nnd put his finger on thut word.
Europe long ago recognized the need am thinking and the deeds I am do o f a Turkish attack against the right In this way he s a ile d out “ your eyeB
flank o f the Australians. The Turks,
ing—
when
there
is
not
forever
beating
o f educating the student in such a man
on the other hand, say that all the are like beautiful twin lakes, nnd your
ner that he graduate from school a use at the doors o f my- soul some great de British attacks were repulsed.
lashes are like the rushes growing on
Any progress made by the British at the borders.” Then Inez took the dic
ful and aggressive man o f the world. sire to do something larger, which I
Suvla bay would, according to the m ili tionary and hy the same means said,
In Germany, particularly, the trade know that I was meant to do.”
tary experts, be important, as it would “ You Americans are great flatterers.”
schools are o f a high class. Throughout
threaten the Turks who are facing the This was followed by a sentence from
the United States industrial schools,
The Washington Post, having noted Australians down the coast and, like
Billy— "T h ere Is no such beauty In
Capital ............................. ..................................................... $25,000
mechanics arts schools, domestic science Colonel Roosevelt’s utterances on the other operations against Turkey, have America as yours."
Surplus and Undivided Profits.............................................. $60.000
schools have been established and are Coast, predicts that the Colonel will try an influence on the Balkan states,
These few communications occupied
which seemingly are about to decide
doing much in preparing young men and to make national preparedness an issue which set o f belligerents they will join. half an hour, hut what time was lost
women for their future battle with the for 191(5. It requires no effort to do Serbia probably will make her reply in looking up words was gained In the
In tw o or
world.
this. Preparedness is already an issue. this week to the suggestion of the en fervor o f the sentences.
A t Stanford, Iowa, a bank has been A ll parties— except the one which tente ministers that she cede Macedonia three evenings Billy had mnde as much
to Bulgaria. Opinion is divided in Ser love as some men with every facility
established in connection with the Bryan will organize*-will be for pr“ -
bia as to what her reply will be, but | would make in a year. And Dona Inez,
schools. The object o f this unique bank paredness. In fact, all the platform it is expected it will be favorable.
If she was not an apt scholar at learn
is to train the pupils in practical busi utterances on this subject next year
Serbia, it is asserted, would like to j ing English, certainly understood with
await
the
outcome
o
f
the
Greek
crisis
I
ness methods and to encourage the habit will be o f such a nature that the voter
marvelous facility what was said to
o f saving. What is the sense of fillin g who seeks to be guided only by such before giving her decision. This, how her by this method o f coimvinlcHtion.
Bologna, Sausage, Hamburger and Lard, all home made. Fresh and salt
ever, is likely to continue for some days
live girls and boys full o f dead lan things will have a hard time to choose and is expected to end in an agreement I Before Dona Inez had lea: % I enough
meats and fish in season. Prices Most Reasonable.
guages and higher geometry and not among Republicans, Democrats and the between King Constantine and the new I English to catch a British nobleman
Our home cured meats are far superior to the custom cured article and
give them a practical education to go few Progressives who w ill maintain premier, M. Venizelos, which will guar j she had been caught by K r American
che-iner. Have you tried them?
scamp who should have been put In the
with the other? The employer doesn’t that p a rty’s entity. The real test will antee the continued neutrality of
DRESSED CH ICK EN E VER Y SA T U R D A Y
stocks
for
during
to
make
love
to
the
Greece.
ask a fellow to demonstrate a little come on the question o f sincerity, on
____________
or at any other time on order
daughter o f a Spanish grandee. H ow
calculus or rip o ff a yard o f Virgil. whether these platform pledges are
Herd of Eugene Moose at Cottage Grove ever, he came out frankly at last and
CULVER BROTHERS
What he wants is practical business mere “ molasses to catch flies.”
In
About (50 head o f Moose came up 1 one morning, marching boldly Into the
People’s Meat Market
Pure Home Made Lard Our Specialty
presence
o
f
Don
Sebnstlano.
asked
him
methods.
such a test the Republicans will emerge from Eugene Wednesday night to visit |
A
This is not an excoriation o f school in ' first place. Whatever we have o f the local lodge members. The Eugene , for his daughter's hand. The old gen
tleman
looked
at
the
American
brevet
team
conferred
degrees
on
a
local
class
work. It is merely an appeal for more navy, fortifications, troops, are the re
o f eight. Refreshments were served by i clerk aghast and asked him what be
practical schooling to go with the theo suit o f Republican efforts. The low the Cottage Grove Moose and the meet j
meant.
Billy replied that be meant
retical. Young people, learn a trade. estate o f our national defence today— ing was voted a big success by all. The I
exactly what be said.
I f you are not taught in your school, the wretched morals o f the naval arm, local lodge has a membership o f IIS nnd j "A re you aware.” asked Don Sebas-
take it upon yourself to learn one, and the defective mechanism o f our sub Eugene has (500 members.
fiano, "that our family were nobles at
learn one you like and learn it well.
a time when the land in which you
marine force, and the limited mobility
W it h iip w b u ild in g », h#tt*r e q u ip m en t, e n
•
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•
Governor Withycombe has appointed wet»- bom was Inhabited by savages?”
l a r g e « ! * r « m n < U . mi ll tnnriy A d d i t i o n » to i t»
o f our slender army— is due to the de
Col. Lawson o f Cottage Grove agent to
" I am." said Billy, "and nre you
f a « ' u 11 y , t h e I 'n l v e r f t l t y o f O r e g o n w i l l h e » i n It »
T IS ALM O ST pathetic to see a j moralization incident to the flood of
f o r t i e t h y e a r. T u p w I « » , S e p t e m b e r 14. I W I A .
restore law and order in Curry County,
S p e c i a l t r a i n i n g In ( o m m e r r e , J o u r n a l i n m .
young man or woman finish col- ! p ifflin g peace treaties negotiated by where there have been alleged viola aware that my ancestors drove your
ancestors out o f Texas? My ancestors
A r r h i t e r t n r e . U w , Me«tl«*!ne. T e a « - h I n g . L i b i n -
lege at 25 or so and find him- ■ Bryan and to the bucolic notions o f tion! of the fish law and the people are
ry W o r k . H w l t , r h y » i « - n l T m i n i u g n o d f ine
bought au oil tract o f your ancestors,
A r t « . I^ irg e a n d »tr«»n g «le p arf n ie n t* o f L i b e r
self or herself unable to earn a living. Josephus Daniels. These men are the arrayed against the Vlacley Company. and now I am In receipt o f $ 20.000 a
al L d m a t l o n .
L i b r a r y «»f m o r e tlm* 511,000 v o l u m e * , t h i r - d
It is galling to him or her to have to flower o f Democracy and one o f them
month from the pro|>erty?"
t ee n b u i l d i n g » f u l l y ' i u l p p e « l . tv»«» »p le n« lt« l 1
Girls Camp.
start learning a trade at from $3 to remains in the Cabinet, and directs the
Billy Intended by this statement to
gym naw fum ».
Mrs. H. N. Alidrich and a numlier strike the nail on the head, and he did.
T u itio n Free.
D o r m i t « » r t e » f o r m e n Mini for
$7 a week or a little better at a tun» destinies of the navy. Under such cir
» w o m e n . fa‘* p e n » e » L o w e M .
o f girls o f the M. E. Sunday School are
o f life when others o f like age are cumstances, any Democratic platform camping for a few days south o f town. for Iron Sebastiano, with all his blue
f
W r i t e f o r fre e «-ntalog». A«t«lre»»ln* R r r i « l r n r
supporting families. The writer is not declarations in favor of preparedness The experience will be new to most of blood, wns as poor as a church mouse.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Billy married Ilona Inez, and the pair
r.rilKNK. OKROON
writing o f what he has heard. He is will be heavily discounted and will de the girls and an will enjoy it.
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now live In winter In Spain, In sum
a o *« » . * » s » a t oes f k m n ■ (, U •* O
w riting o f what be knows. He has ceive nobody
tner In America.
Legal blanks— The Bentinel.
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